A64646:39
A geographical and historical disquisition touching the Asia properly so called, the Lydian Asia…A geographicall and historicall disqvisition touching the Asia properly so called, the Lydian Asia…
A geographical and historical disquisition touching the Asia properly so called, the Lydian Asia (which is the Asia so often mentioned in the New Testament), the Proconsular Asia, and the Asian Diocese by James Usher.A geographicall and historicall disqvisition touching the Asia properly so called, the Lydian Asia (which is the Asia so often mentioned in the New Testament), the Proconsular Asia, and the Asian Diocese by James Ussher.
Oxford: printed by Henry Hall, 1643
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
But in the days of Constantine, and the Christian Emperors that succeeded him, the circuit thereof was much abridged, and a distinction brought in betwixt the Proconsular Asia and the Asian Diocese; the one being put under the command of the Proconsul of Asia, the other under the government of the Vicarius of Asia or the Asian Diocese: for so in the Imperial Constitutions is he indifferently nominated. Thus in the CCCLXV. year of our Lord, two Rescripts were given out by the Emperor Valens: the one udated the 27th. of January (in the latter end of the first year of his reign) to Clearchus the Vicarius Asiae; the other, xthe 6th of October following, unto his successor Auxonius, under the style of Vicarius dioeceseos Asianae. This Auxonius ysome do imagine to be the same with Ausonius the Poet: without all ground of authority or reason, removing him out of the Western ⟨p. 16⟩into the Eastern empire. But of his predecessor we are sure, that he is the same Clearchus, whom Eunapius mentioneth to have been in his time preferred unto this government; before he was by Valens promoted afterwards unto the Proconsulship of the other Asia.
But in the dayes of Constantine, and the Christian Emperours that succeeded him, the circuit thereof was much abbridged, and a distinction brought in betwixt the Proconsular Asia and the Asian Diocese; the one being put under the command of the Proconsul of Asia, the other under the government of the Vicarius of Asia or the Asian Diocese: for so in the Imperiall Constitutions is he indifferently nominated. Thus in the CCCLXV. yeare of our Lord, two Rescripts were given out by the Emperour Valens: the one udated the 27th. of January (in the latter end of the first yeare of his raigne) to Clearchus the Vicarius Asiae; the other, xthe 6th of October following, unto his successor Auxonius, under the style of Vicarius dioeceseos Asianae. This Auxonius